Coming soon from Remainder House!
That’s patently untrue. I mean, James Buchanan was shit, and his two predecessors Fillmore and Pierce weren’t so hot either. And Harding! What a jerk.
So Reagan was merely sixth worst?
Hoover would be seventh, then.
I was going to make a comment, but then I realized I’m way younger than pkbites. 
Now Palin is thinking of running for U.S. Senate.
No. I’m sorry. This is not a dream. You cannot wake up from it.
I wonder if she (or her PR rep) keeps a list of ideas to get her media attention. Maybe stars next to each item based on how much publicity it’s likely to garner, with a formula at the top that weighs her position in the news cycle versus world events.
You say “terrified of her” like it’s a bad thing.
Yes, I was terrified of her back in 2008. You better believe I was terrified. She was the running mate of a man in his 70s who had a history of cancer, and she was a nitwit who spoke in platitudes and word salad. The prospect of her becoming POTUS was genuinely terrifying to me, and I was far from the only person who felt that way. Even her supporters made excuses for her, saying that if she was President she’d surround herself with advisors who would tell her what to do, and that she’d be fine once she had “studied up” on the issues. In retrospect, given what we’ve learned about Palin since, these reassurances seem patently absurd.
You loftily describe the 2008 GOP ticket’s chances as “highly improbable,” but McCain and Obama were statistically tied in some major polls that summer. I remember feeling physically sick when I heard that McCain had picked Palin; I knew plenty of people who were furious that Hillary didn’t get the nomination, and a mass defection of HRC supporters seemed genuinely (if briefly) possible.
It’s easy enough to say now that McCain never had a chance. He put the nation, and the world, at risk with his reckless selection of Palin. Just because that risk didn’t metastasize into a catastrophe doesn’t mean that everything was just peachy all along and there was never anything to worry about.
I’m not afraid of her now; she’s just another snarky, brainless right-wing blowhard who says and does hilariously stupid things. But back in 2008, I was scared, and I think any sensible, well-informed person should have been too.
:dubious::rolleyes:
Agree 100% with every word of this post. Sure, she’s a joke and a laughingstock now but back then…some Republicans actually took her seriously.
I wasn’t afraid of her so much as of the people who were going to vote for McCain/Palin because of her. I kept thinking there isn’t enough time before the election for the novelty to wear off and for people to see her for what she really is.
While I wouldn’t have put it quite that extremely, I do know some of my moderate Republican/Independent friends did end up voting Obama or 3rd party because of McCain’s VP selection. (Yeah, I know. I didn’t think anyone gave a shit about VP, but apparently some do.) I initially thought Palin was an intriguing choice and an interesting move for McCain. And then I learned more about her…
That’s your sole evidence of The Left’s ‘fear’? A few people on a centre-left message board opening a few threads?
In effect you openly admit you are so lacking in imagination that you cannot conceive of any motive for the minimal-investment activity of opening a few threads on a message board other than fear?
This is especially hilarious considering the right’s patent abject fear of Obama - most especially the fear that he might do an OK job, if allowed to. It’s called projection, dude. Seek help.
I’m registered Republican. I was happy that a woman was picked because it could have totally ripped away Hillary’s chance to be the first female President (nope, I didn’t think McCain had high odds of surviving 4 years).
But then she was interviewed. It took only one interview for me to realize that she was a flat out dangerous pick. Not at ‘well, she’ll probably muddle through’ type of pick. She was flat out dangerous for us on a world stage.
The more I learned about her, the more I realized that McCain would NOT have made it through the first 4 years because I could imagine Palin (or those cults she’s associated with) having his offed in one way or another. She and her whole clan seemed really unhinged from reality. Then you add the significant cultish Christian background with the seven mountains movement and all those whack jobs?
I used to want to travel to Alaska, but after her time in the spot light, I don’t think I’m interested in seeing a culture that makes central Appalachia look like the height of civility and education. If there were ever a vote to give Alaska back to Russia for free, I would vote for it and be happy to donate to buying a big shiny bow.
You’re citing Dr.[del]Freud[/del] Fraud?
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:…Ad Nauseum.
If you’re not afraid of Palin why is my position that you are getting you so wound up?
Shoe fits. Wear.
How telling that the left resorts to insults, and name calling.
So you still can’t think of any motive aside from fear. How tragic for you and yours.
PKbites, in this case the left focuses on Sarah Palin because it’s useful to tie her to the party, and being a former VP nominee, it’s easy to do.
I don’t blame McCain. Sarah Palin was a governor with a 70% approval rating. On paper, she was eminently qualified to be President. And at first, Democrats didn’t consider her a punchline, they considered her very formidable. Then she got exposed in that first national interview as knowing virtually nothing about policy outside of issues affecting Alaska.
Any anyway, look who Obama picked! If Biden was a Republican he’d be Sarah Palin. But since he’s a Democrat, it’s just cute that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about 80% of the time.
Malarkey! 
And in any case you forget that after the presidential debates it is virtually obligatory to get the VP to discuss the debate, Biden was there with gusto in front of the cameras, Palin was nowhere to be seen.
What I saw is something that continues to undermine virtually all right wing pundits in my mind, even after a few were caught telling it like it was, the party kept propping up the unreality. Palin should never had been considered for the VP position.
And Republicans that never acknowledged that they propped up a flake, (and still continue to do it to this day) convince me that no one should take them seriously.